Handle for textile bags.



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HANDLE FOR TEXTILE BAGS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN4 n Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

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P. P. CURRAN.

HANDLE FOR TEXTILE BAGS.

APPLICATION PILED JAN.19.1911.

Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

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'HANDLE FOR TEXTILE BAGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

Application led January 19, 1911. Serial No. 603,540.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK P. CURRAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handles for Textile' Bags, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to knitted, woven or crocheted bags, and particularly to the handles therefor, the object of my invention being not only to improve the same from the standpoint of strength and durability, but at the same time to cheapen the cost of manufacture of the bag itself.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a knitted fabric from which my improved bag is manufactured; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the bag in one form; Fig. 3 is a similar view of the bag in another form; Fig. 4 is a perspective of a handle; Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail of the fabric, Fig. l; Fig. 6 is a perspective of another form of handle; F ig. 7 is a -perspective of a woven bag in which my invention is embodied; and Figs. 8 and 9 are perspectives of modified details.

Heretofore in bags of the character to which my invention is particularly applicable, it is the common practice to knit or weave a straight openwork fabric, cut the same to desired lengths, finish the raw ends in any suitable way and sew together the selvage edges of the folded fabric. A running string is passed through the upper courses of the finished ends and the handle attached thereto byl S-shaped wires. This method of attaching the handle is extremely weak, and a relatively small strain breaks it` down, thereby destroying the utility of the bag. The cost of the independent handle adds also to the expense of manufacture. In some bags of this character, which are of slightly better grade, it is customary to gather a few of the wales (or warp courses, as they are commonly called even in knit fabric) into groups with their ends looped through rings through which the running cord is passed, and the handle with similar S-shaped wires secured tothe running string or passed through several of the ruiming rings. The same weakness is inherent in this method of construction, however, and the handle parts at its weakest point, viz., that of attachment to the bag.

I now propose to extend the longitudinal courses beyond the upper edge of the bag body and form them into a handle loop on each side of the bag. There are many ways of doing this so I do not limit my invention to the particular ways illustrated, which are, however, readily understood embodiments of my invention.

In Fig. l I have illustrated a continuous knit or crocheted fabric in which body portions A and handle portions B alternate. It will be noted that the filling threads b of the body which extend betweenV and are caught by the chain stitching which forms the longitudinal wales a, are, in the handle portion B, run in with these longitudinal wales to form a portion thereof, (see Fig. 5) and then in the following body portion again thrown across between the wales in their usual form as interposed filling. In this way a continuous fabric may be made without interruption, which is, of course, a great economy in the cost of manufacture. If this fabric be cut at the middle of the open handle ortion B so that the sides of the bag are ormed in their usual manner by sewing together the selvage edges of the folded body portion A, the handle may be formed, as illustrated in Fig. 2, by looping together the extended longitudinal courses on each side of the bag and securing their overlydvped ends by means of clips C. This meth of securing the extended courses is cheaper and more expeditious than stitching the strands together or braiding them together, but it will be understood, of course, that any suitable method may be employed, and if desired, the extended courses may be passed through a handle or a strip of leather or other material D sewed around them to produce a suitable grip, (Fig. 4).

Any possible distortion of the fabric which might result if the ends of the longitudinal Wales were carried an equal distance across the handle loop, is avoided by permitting them to overlap each other and relying on the clip or other fasteninfr device to grip the courses together. When the handle is braided, Fig. G, there is no diiiculty from this source, since the ends are fastened in as reached.

If desired, in order to facilitate the opening of the mouth of the bag, some of the longitudinal courses at each side may be clipped oil' at E and not carried u into the handle, without materially wea ening the latter.

g acarrea@ In Fig. 3 I have shown the bag formed in another way from the same fabric. Here the fabric is cut at the middle of the body portion A and folded lengthwise -so that both bottom and sides must be sewed to form the bag. In this construction it will be noted that the handle loops are formed by the folding back of the fabric and so that if held together in some convenient fashion, as for instance, by a cover similar to that shown in Fig. 4, no other fastening device is necessary. In whichever form the bag is made, however, it is obvious that the strain of the load carried is taken up by the lonsV gitudinal Wales a, and inasmuch as these are the strongest element of the bag and are carried through the handle, the latter is correspondingly strong.

In Fig. 7 I have shown my invention applied to a Woven` bag. I-Iere the Woof courses e are dropped at the open section of the web and thrown in again at the lled portion E, only the warp threads o being carried across the intervening portion from which the handle is formed. The bag may be cut and sewe'd in precisely the same manner as when using the knitted fabric pre! viously described. f

To strengthen the selvage edges, the latter may be reinforced by tapes T (Fig. 8) which if carried up into the handle loop give additional strength thereto. v

I have shown in Fig. 9 a grip of modified form, in which the extended warp threads are folded within a grip of flexible material F and secured by transverse stitching S.

Obviously my invention may be variously otherwise modified without departing from my invention, and I do not limit myseli:l to the details shown and described. In the following claims I use the expression textile bag to include bags of the character described Whether. knitted, crocheted, Woven or otherwise formed in substantially the same manner.

I claim as my invention:

l. A textile bag of the character described having a filled body portion terminating as a filled fabric at approximately themiippzer ,.liies 0f this Patent may be obtained for :ve cents each, by addressing thev A Washington, D. 6., y

edge ofthe bag body, and a handle therefor comprising a series of courses from the bag body extended upward from the mouth of the bag, spaced around the latter at frequent intervals and gathered into a handle f loop, substantially asdescribed.

2. A textile bag of the character described having a body portion comprising longitudinal courses and interposed cross courses forming a filling-between the same terminat ing as such at approximately the upper edge of the bag body, in combination with a handle comprising longitudinal. courses of the bag body extended beyond the upper edge of the bag body and gathered into a handle loop, the cross courses of the bag bod being carried into the handle loop as ongitudinal courses, substantially as described.

3. A textile bag of the character described, having a body portion comprising longitudinal courses and interposed cross courses forming a filling bet-Ween the same terminating as such at approximately the upper edge of the bag body, in combination with a handle comprising longitudinal courses of the bag body extended beyond the upper edge of the bag body and their free ends overlapped to form a handle loop, the cross courses of the bag body being carried into the handle loop as longitudinal courses, substantiallv as described.

45A textile bag having a filled body por tion, in combination with a handle for said bag comprising on each side of the bag, a series of courses from the bag body spaced at frequent intervals 'along the length of each side, extended upward from the mouth of the bag and gathered into a handle loop, the loops so formed on the opposite sides of the bag registering and combining to form a handle when the bag is closed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speeii'cation, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK P. CURRAN.

Commissiener of Patents, 

